Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.